Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Crosby, Crosscanonby

Crosby, Crosscanonby

Crosby

civil parish:-

Crosscanonby (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY07393842 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY0738

10Km square:-

NY03

CFI81.jpg (taken 12.8.2016)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 45 2)
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-

old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:- Crosbye

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.

Sax9NY04.jpg
Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus. "Crosbye"
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
placename:- Crosbye

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

SP11NY03.jpg
"Crosbye"
circle, tower
item:- private collection : 16
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evidence:-

probably old map:- Jenner 1643
placename:- Casbye

source data:-

Tables of distances with a maps, Westmerland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, published by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643; published 1643-80.

JEN4Sq.jpg
"Casbye"
circle

evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Crosbye

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.

JAN3NY03.jpg
"Crosbÿe"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.

MD12NY04.jpg
"Crosby"
Circle, building and tower.
item:- JandMN : 90
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

BO18NY03.jpg
"Crosby"
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY03NE.jpg
"Crosby"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776.

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Pages 23-24:- "... ..."
"Workington Bank ... To sail along the E. side of this Bank, or between it and Workington; keep St. Bee's Head S.S.W. or Mary-Port E. ½N. when it will be in a line with Crosby, which is a remarkable house on the top of a hill, two or three miles from Mary-Port."

evidence:-

road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.

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C38555.jpg
page 555-556 "Crosby"
item:- JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-

old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.

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Lw18.jpg
"Crosby"
village or other place
item:- private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

FD02NY03.jpg
"Crosby"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Crosby

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.